A Plea For A New Translation Of The Scriptures With A Translation Of Pauls Epistle To The Romans

Author : Richard Kingsley Moore
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498202829
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Paul's Concept of Justification written by Richard Kingsley Moore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek family of words characterizing the doctrine of "justification by faith" (as it is known in English) is most prominent in the writings of the Apostle Paul. It was this doctrine that lay at the heart of the sixteenth-century Reformation; Martin Luther and his followers considered it to be at the very center of the gospel. Protestants came to understand "justification" differently from the Catholic Church they had left. Instead of the Catholic "realist" view, in which God makes a sinner righteous, they came to a "forensic" understanding, by which God, as judge, declares a sinner righteous. During the nineteenth century a third, "relational" view began to emerge: it viewed "justification" as God's gift of a right relationship to a sinner. This monograph examines Paul's concept from three perspectives: the New Testament data; the way the doctrine has developed historically; and how the doctrine has been expressed in English translations of the Scriptures. The author concludes that it is the relational view that most accurately depicts Paul's concept of "justification."